

                                    VENUS

Author: Vincent Lepetit.
        lepetit@scinfo.u-nancy.fr 

A friend of mine has written a wonderfull 'mars-like' demo. No, it's
not true, it's much better than MARS, since the observer can look
in almost all directions, there are waves that moves, image size can be 
changed dynalically ...

It is a little bit slower than MARS, but its 100% C, almost portable
(It works under Linux, sunOS, Solaris, HPUX, MSDOS).

VENUS requires a 8 bits per pixel display. It does not use TAGL high level
functions (it would be too slow), it only uses the GraphicPort part of TAGL.
Vincent has developped VENUS under ModeX, but it was not too difficult to
port to TAGL. 

Controls:

mouse : looking direction
* /   : increase/decrease speed
0..9  : change colormap
v     : toggle waves
m     : toggle map
r     : compute a new map
q     : quit
+/-   : display size
w/x   : increase/decrease twilight zone
s/d   : increqse/decrease rendering depth

Future improvement:
Observer tilt.
Objects (alien ships for instance ...)
Go ahead Vincent !!!!


Thanks a lot to Vincent, that gave us this wonderfull thing, with it's
entire source code.
